I loathe Wal-Mart ever since spending 3 days in their corporate datacentre in Bentonville, Arkansas.

They had slogans painted on the walls. It was a barn full of cubes as far as the eye could see. Everybody seemed worried about being seen to do a good job by their managers, they got in early and worked late.

I'm currently sitting in a cube in corporate America with motivational posters up in the hallways without great distress; so I've obviously become somewhat inured to it. Wal-Mart was the first and still the worst example of the type I've seen. It didn't help that the town is a dump, it's still the only place in the US I've been that I really didn't like.